

It will insert what looks like a regular space, but it's really a non-breaking space and when you switch back or save it will convert to & nbsp.

Remove the regular space that's there and hit Option+Space on your Mac. Then switch to the HTML editor when you are done and find the place where you need the non-breaking spaces to be. Still not as quick as having a dedicated keystroke, but perhaps faster than manually inserting the & nbsp yourself.Īnother hack that still requires the HTML editor portion is to type your document as normal using the Rich Content Editor. In the HTML editor mode, you strip out the regular space from the beginning, leaving just the & nbsp and it will keep it. Then switch to the HTML editor mode and search for a regular space followed by & nbsp. You can double space wherever you want a non-breaking space to appear. Unfortunately for you, if you try to remove either space, the Rich Content Editor will strip out the & nbsp and leave just the regular space. Other programs, like DreamWeaver, won't let me enter additional spaces without specifically making them a non-breaking one with a special keystroke like you mentioned (shift+space).Īnyway, what you have is a regular space followed by a non-breaking space. I don't want additional spaces, I want a single space. This is undesirable for all of us who learned to double space at the end of a sentence and still do it sometimes. Additional presses of the space bar add & nbsp. When you press the space bar you get a regular space. You'll still have to go into the HTML editor, but at least it's easier to enter them in the first place. About the only time I use them is when I need the units on a number to stick with the number, but that is very rarely in anything I do inside Canvas. Canvas tends to put them in when they're not needed. I'm not a big fan of & nbsp - in fact, I have a macro written that will go through and replace all occurrences of them with a regular space. It appears that Jive strips all of the & followed by nbsp and just puts in a space, so I've had to go through and edit the document.
